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That’s what I’m hearing, I also expect he’ll decline but I haven’t heard any details

Completely unsubstantiated by hearing we’re having a dip at Hawkins.

The Suns help was way over the top but it was justified as they were pretty much starting again from scratch as was not reigning in their academy by now. It’s a huge slap in the face for clubs like St Kilda, Freo, Essendon who haven’t won stuff all in years that North are getting spoon fed an easy path back to finals. Doesn’t guarantee more than that but they now have an easy way to build a consistently finals side. And these picks will help them for a decade, that’s the problem. Any help for bad teams should be based on helping them go from awful to just ok. North have barely tried to do that, they’re still stripping away veterans and not making aggressive moves for mature talent. Where’s the Vince or Tyson trades to actually get better now not in 3 years time?

Sheezel, LDU are proven. Simpkin’s very good. Wardlaw’s proven to have great talent. Tarryn Thomas is a freakish talent and they don’t deserve to benefit if they can’t turn him around. If they can’t make a good midfield out of those 5 they’re not going to do it with more talent. And thats already allowing for Phillips and Powell not being much chop so far but both are at least useful and could be trade assets if they wanted to get more picks in. It’s crazy to give them future picks when they have the ability to trade future picks right now. There’s no reason to give them more talent and allow them bonus picks to trade. Especially in to future years. Give them what they got last year to bring in Logue and tell them to trade extra picks if they need to.

He’s like Tomlinson if he played midfield. Hard pass

I doubt the Saints will trade pick 12, more likely a 2nd rounder and pay all of Shiel’s contract. When Shiel’s true value is a 3rd rounder and the bombers chipping in 200k Essendon will still getting be overs and using that to pay Gresham overs. 2 teams working together to use salary cap space to create draft a high draft pick. Gross.

Our future first is on the table, probably with pick 13 or whatever it is and a 2nd rounder maybe for something back. The Dogs have a stronger hand and North be even stronger than that. It’s a lot for what might end up picks 6 or 7 and drafting back to back in that range of this draft makes me nervous.

TB says Leon Cameron happy to remain in Sydney. Let’s hope he is

Does he come with a Time Machine to get him back to 2018. He’s cooked

I’d imagine a ruck would care that he’s joining 2 All Aus 23 year old mids who will be the future leaders of a club. Could also see the question of where Wines and Jonas are Personally I imagine lifestyle is a factor but also the Swans game plan suits Grundy better, as does the SCG

So, how about we pay 200k of Grundy’s salary for 3-4 years and in return the Swans pay JJ another 200k per year and boost his compo.

Suburban grounds are great Stupid time slot especially with a camera position that was always going to cause a nightmare is the problem

The question is can we pay either out in the 2023 cap? If not, then the payouts mean we keep both on the list for next year and there’s no huge difference between winding them up in October and winding them up in March assuming we have the main list spots. I’ve seen enough with both. But I guess if T Mc wants to do a preseason and can actually impress then we’re paying for it no matter what so might as well have him.

North only offered Brown 3 I think. No one else went 4. But I’m fine with it because he was a crucial cog. It’s more than time for BBB to give it away tho, at this stage playing him is just painful. Would be nice if he’s agreeable and whilst he deserves his money owed could be nice if he’s able to assist the club in other ways to earn it. Without knowing full details Tommy Mc getting his 2022 contracted smoothed and extended to 2024 was a mistake. He played half a dozen good games to start 2021 after doing nothing in 19 and 20. Nothing to end 2021 either. Unless it was vital to sign a big name in 2022 the smoothing of his deal has proven to be a costly error.

Not sure Goody is valued anywhere like a Hardwick or Clarko, but hard to say a coach on the rise shouldn’t attach themselves to the Dees midfield. Reckon the Dees forwards are a huge opportunity too for a good coach to come in and fix them up

Mark McVeigh - started to get the Giants back on track with Himmelberg back and more expansive game plan. Swans academy and Allies coach now so exposed to a lot of elite juniors Stuey Dew - probably prefer him as forwards than mids, don’t like the Suns defensive structures or ball use but their forwards compete hard McQualter - didn’t love his caretaker stint but would like some Richmond ball movement IP

Birch needs to be dropped now so her poor form is arrested before big games. She’s having an awful year

Hawks lining up to own the Mornington Peninsula after a Dingley move

I’d trade for anyone who can be 8 points a game better than T Mc. We also have Grundy going out and surely at least one of the old boys, we need to add at least one tall purely for depth.

If you don’t want to watch Schache or Tom McDonald next year then you really do. (Barring the unlikely event of getting someone really good)

Skills aren’t great but he has physicality and athleticism than Schache doesn’t. One of the best of bad options

Unless it’s used in a different deal I’d probably rather 23 and 32 now than wait a year to use 12-18.

Kositschzke to the Tigers. Thought he was one of the best of the buy low options. Probably just filling the gap for Riewoldt. But Lynch available?

Verrall is a long term option, perfect number 3 right now. Need a number 2. Ideally 23-25 years old with multiple preseasons under his belt JVR played most of his games as the back up this year. I like that it gets him in the game and around the ball. Long term he should end up a forward only.

North Melbourne, Greater Western Sydney and the Western Bulldogs have all expressed interest in the West Australian as they prepare for ruckmen to depart during next month's trade period. Someone wake Kelly O’Donnell up from his sleep and let him know we need the Teakle